Short biography

Born and raised in Ukraine, I obtained my Master Degree (2005) at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukraine, followed by a Ph.D. (2008) from the University of Konstanz in Germany, working with Prof. Manfred Albrecht on hard magnetic materials for data storage application. From November 2010 until September 2015 I was leading a group “Magnetic Nanomembranes” at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden. Since October 2015 I am heading the research group “Intelligent materials and devices” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).

The main focus of my work on fundamental and applied aspects of magnetism in curved surfaces, namely design and understanding of artificial micro- and nano-structures with unique magnetic configurations and exploring their application potential in the field of sensorics. One of the key outcomes is the realization of artificial helimagnetic-like configurations in 3D micro-helixes. From a theoretical point of view, radial magnetized curved architectures like Swiss roll structures lack inversion- as well as time-reversal symmetry and are therefore characterized by a geometrically induced ferro-toroidic order (collaboration with the group of Dr. Carmine Ortix, IFW Dresden, in the frame of the EU FP7-ICT FET Young Explorers Grant 2014).

As curved nanomembranes can be reshaped on demand after fabrication, the interest to this topic is far beyond the fundamental research. The results of my team created a solid background to realize the so-called shapeable (flexible, printable and stretchable) magnetoelectronics and highlighted its potential applications for eMobility and medicine. These activities are patent protected. For the development of this novel research field I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2012 and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grants in 2013 and 2017.

Research interests

Flexible (magneto)electronics

Printable sensorics

Biocompatible wireless communication devices

Shapeable magnetoelectronics

Detection of magnetically functionalized objects in fluidics

Magnetic rolled-up architectures

Magnetization reversal behaviour and coupling phenomena

Magnetism on curved surfaces

Selected projects

11. DFG research grant proposal (PI at the HZDR) Printable giant magnetoresistive sensors with high sensitivity at small magnetic fields

2004:- Prize for the best scientific work of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine for students (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

2000:- Michael-Hrushevsky scholarship (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

Editorial and conference activities

- Coorganizer of the Interdivisional SKM Symposium "Geometry, topology, and condensed matter" at the Annual Spring Meeting 2019 of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany - Organizer of the Focused Session of the Magnetism Division "Curvilinear magnetism: fundamentals and applications" at the Annual Spring Meeting 2019 of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany - Coorganizer of the Focused Workshop "Curvilinear micromagnetism", Kyiv, Ukraine - Coorganizer of the International workshop "Top-Spin 3: Spin and Topological phenomena in nanostructures"- Coorganizer of the International workshop "Top-Spin 2: Spin and Topological phenomena in nanostructures"- Coorganizer of the International workshop "Top-Spin: Spin and Topological phenomena in nanostructures"- Member of the Editorial Board (Review editor) in Frontiers of Materials: Thin solid Films- Member of the Advisory Panel of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics- Organizer of the 581. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar "Flexible, Stretchable and Printable High Performance Electronics"- Organizer of the 526. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar "Functional Magnetic Nanomembranes"- Guest Editor of the Themed Issue for "SPIN": Functional Magnetic Nanomembranes